Paulo Coelho Simple Quotations

True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do

simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them".

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.

I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.

The great victory, which appears so simple today, was the result of a series of small victories that went unnoticed

If everyone there just lived their lives and let others do the same, God would be in every moment, in every grain of mustard, in the fragment of cloud that is there and then gone the following moment. God was there and yet people believed they still had to go on looking, because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.

That 'simple desire' to share something meant that we could enter the world of language without words, where everything is always clear and there is no danger of being misinterpreted.

One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now. The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

Tea ceremony is a way of worshipping the beautiful and the simple. All one's efforts are concentrated on trying to achieve perfection through the imperfect gestures of daily life. Its beauty consists in the respect with which it is performed. If a mere cup of tea can bring us closer to God, we should watch out for all the other dozens of opportunities that each ordinary day offers us.

What counts in a good story is the person inside. Keep it simple.

Simplicity is the heart of everything. If you look to the desert, apparently the desert is very simple but it's full of life, it's full of hidden places and the beauty is that it looks simple but it's complex in the way that it expresses the soul of the world or God.

I understand once again that the greatness of God always reveals itself in the simple things.

because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first had to find myself.